Bay Gardens Resorts

4 Business View Caribbean In 2002, the Destangs acquired the property next door - a small establishment called the Palm Tree Hotel - which had gone into receivership. They rechristened their new purchase, the Bay Gardens Inn, and added another 33 rooms to their portfolio. The final addition to the Bay Gardens hotel chain was the addition of the Bay Gardens Resort and Spa, which the Destangs built and opened in 2007, on property they acquired in 1999, on Reduit Beach in the Gros Islet part of the island. With the establishment of this four-star hotel, and its 78 luxury rooms, the Bay Gardens group was complete and now totals 198 rooms along with 4 res- taurants, 5 bars and 5 conference rooms. Sanovnik Destang, the son of Joyce and Desmond, is the Executive Director of Bay Gardens, having taken over the family business in 2008 – just as the Great Recession was poised to wreak havoc on the tourist industry throughout the Caribbean. For the next few years, the resort lost money. But under Sanovnik’s